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plications and artistic qualities). And third, to teach students to experiment
with the media, to create their own media products or texts.

The media literacy is the result of media education.
the terms “information competence” and “media competence” are more
accurate in denoting the individual’ abilities to use, critically analyze,
evaluate, and communicate media messages of various types, forms, and
categories and to analyze complex information processes and media
functioning in society

During the lessons, play activities are often used (especially with younger
children), students perform creative tasks (making a short video film, a
photo collage, etc.), and have collective discussions of media texts

How do you conduct media education in your teaching?

Now we move forward to our first exercise
A personal task to everybody: you are given the task to choose the best
imageq which presents you at most; if you have to choose a visualizing, an
image or sentence, whichever image you choose represents you best, what
it will be; and please, select an illustration or sentence (maxim, aforism)
for democracy.

The teacher said that one of her best media education lesson was a
whole-class game called “Who is a media expert?” The class splits into
2 teams. The teacher was a moderator and asked questions concerning
media culture (genres, famous media texts, their authors, etc.). The
teams had to answer them. And the second part of the game required
expressing creative skills of the pupils (collages, etc.).

She/he also has an opportunity to conduct extra-curricular media classes
with her pupils (usually these are games or competitions on the theme of
media culture).
Literary imitation assignments for the analysis of media characters
Dramatic role-playing assignments
Graphic representation assignments

II. Aristotle on Democracy – the genesis of the term and the political
problem of government the society the state

Born in Macedonia and living during his intellectual prime in Athens during
the fourth century BC, Aristotle headed a large-scale research project that